TY  - GEN
N1  - Corresponding author: Nicola Knight, Departments of Psychology and Anthropology, University of Michigan; knightn@umich.edu
ID  - cogprints2363
UR  - http://cogprints.org/2363/
A1  - Knight, Nicola
A1  - Sousa, Paulo
A1  - Barrett, Justin L.
A1  - Atran, Scott
TI  - Children's attributions of beliefs to humans and God: cross-cultural evidence
Y1  - 2003///
N2  - The capacity to attribute beliefs to others in order to understand action is one of the mainstays of human cognition. Yet it is debatable whether children attribute beliefs in the same way to all agents. In this paper, we present the results of a false-belief task concerning humans and God run with a sample of Maya children aged 4 to 7, and place them in the context of several psychological theories of cognitive development. Children were found to attribute beliefs in different ways to humans and God. The evidence also speaks to the debate concerning the universality and uniformity of the development of folk-psychological reasoning.

AV  - public
KW  - False-belief tasks
KW  -  God
KW  -  religion
KW  -  theory of mind
KW  -  Yukatek Maya
ER  -

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